attachment style

Attachment style is just pop-psych shorthand for the patterns you pick up about closeness and trust in relationships, usually tied to how safe or inconsistent you felt with caregivers, and it gets described in buckets like secure, anxious, avoidant, and sometimes disorganized. One sharp roast, though, is that people love turning it into a horoscope for dating, like, cool, you are avoidant, so you are definitely not just scared and acting weird.